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“Must we not then guard by every means in our
power against our helpers treating the citizens in any such way and, because
they are the stronger, converting themselves from benign assistants into
savage masters?” “We must,” he said.
“And would they not have been provided with the chief safeguard if
their education has really been a good one?” “But it
surely has,” he said. “That,” said I,
“dear Glaucon, we may not properly affirm,This is not so much a reservation in reference to the higher
education as a characteristic refusal of Plato to dogmatize. Cf.
Meno
86 B and my paper “Recent Platonism in England,” A.J.P. vol. ix.
pp. 7-8. but what we wer
they must receive as an agreedCf. 551 B,
Meno
91 B, Thucydides i. 108, G.M.T. 837. stipendThey are worthy of their hire. Cf. on 347 A.
It is a strange misapprehension to speak of Plato as careless of the
welfare of the masses. His aristocracy is one of social service, not of
selfish enjoyment of wealth and power. from the other citizens as
the wages of their guardianship, so measured that there shall be neither
superfluity at the end of the year nor any lack.This is precisely Aristophanes' distinction between beggary
and honorable poverty, Plutus 552-553. And
resorting to a common messAs at Sparta. Cf. 458 C, Newman,
Introduction to Aristotle's Politics, p. 334. like
soldiers on campaign they